About the Authors

Lie Li

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Claudia E. Oropeza

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Bruno Sainz Jr.

Affiliation Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Susan L. Uprichard

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Frank J. Gonzalez

Affiliation Laboratory of Metabolism, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Alan McLachlan

mclach@uic.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM. Performed the experiments: LL CEO BS AM. Analyzed the data: LL CEO BS AM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FJG. Wrote the paper: SLU AM.